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UFS driver can receive a request during memory reclaim by kswapd. So when ufs driver puts the ungate work in queue, and if there are no idle workers, kthreadd is invoked to create a new kworker. Since kswapd task holds a mutex which kthreadd also needs, this can cause a deadlock situation. So ungate work must be done in a separate work queue with WQ_MEM_RECLAIM flag enabled. Such a workqueue will have a rescue thread which will be called when the above deadlock condition is possible. Signed-off-by: Vijay Viswanath <vviswana@codeaurora.org> Signed-off-by: Can Guo <cang@codeaurora.org> Signed-off-by: Asutosh Das <asutoshd@codeaurora.org> Reviewed-by: Subhash Jadavani <subhashj@codeaurora.org> Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.